Oozing sap.
I'm pretty sure that I've mentioned how much I love Christmas, and how the stretch between Halloween and Christmas is my absolute favorite time of the year. I LOVE the holidays, and I know this stems from the sheer fact that my birthday is three days before Christmas. When I was a kid, I'd get jealous of people like my brother who had a birthday in the middle of the summer. They got to celebrate their birthday, then six months later celebrate Christmas, and so on. With me, I only got to celebrate during one time of the year, and I eagerly anticipated that time of the year every single year. I still do. As further proof that I really love Christmas, working retail hasn't killed my love of Christmas. (Although it's probably made me hate people even more, haaaa.)
With my love of Christmas comes my love of Christmas music. I LOVE Christmas music. I have a ginormous collection of Christmas music. It grows every year. I won't lie. I got excited when XM put Holly on the air early this year, and I've been listening to it over the last few days when I'm not listening to the 50's channel or On the Rocks (my current favorite stations). And unlike a vast majority of the population, I'm sure, I don't really get tired of Christmas music during the holiday season, although I can get tired of "Feliz Navidad" after the first ten or fifteen times it gets played on the radio (unless it's Celine Dion's version, and then I'm doubled over laughing), and I'm really not a fan of "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer." That song could never be played ever again, and I'd be happy. Same with anything by the barking dogs or anything by Mannheim Steamroller.
But there is one song that I absolutely cannot stand, and of course it's a song that people seem to absolutely adore. I remember one year when it felt like I heard this song on the radio at least once every hour. I've already heard it a couple of times on Holly. If I actually liked it, I'd probably dub it the most depressing Christmas song ever. Or even one of the most depressing songs ever. But it's just so ... cheesy. And yes, I ruthlessly mock it every year. I'm talking about none other than ...
Forgive me if you like this song (and it's okay if you do), but I just can't handle it. After hearing it for the first time since last Christmas the other day, I was ready to crown it the most pitiful song ever, but then this afternoon while listening to On the Rocks, I heard a version of another song, possibly a sadder, even more pitiful song than "The Christmas Shoes." Yet another song that I mock mercilessly, because I can. If I was going to compile an album of cheesiest, most depressing, most pitiful songs, this would definitely the be the centerpiece.
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